Thanks to 'Detroit Boys' for restoring our power

My wife and I were driving home from the laundromat late Saturday afternoon. We were into our 13th day without power and we were frazzled.

About a half mile from our house we saw workers from The SPE Group of Detroit, Mich., getting into their trucks. We figured it couldn't hurt, so Connie got out of our car, walked up to them and asked if they knew if our house was on anybody's list.

The foreman told her that we weren't on theirs, but he said they would stop by before quitting for the day. He said that they had one more job to go to first.

Fifteen minutes later, they pulled up in front of our house. One worker went up in a bucket and pushed a circuit breaker button on a transformer and the lights went on. The whole thing took less than a minute.

We were a group of only three houses without power, so we had to be on the bottom of the priority lists, but my neighbors on either side of me were elderly, so getting them power was more than just a convenience. That extra effort by four obviously tired and cold utility workers brought big smiles to their faces.

We were 12 days, three hours and 22 minutes without electricity and heat. We burned almost a half cord of wood just to warm the family room.

The Detroit Boys, as the foreman referred to the four of them, came here from Detroit before Sandy hit and have been working seven days a week since.

God bless the Detroit Boys. We never did get their names, and the thousands of other utility workers from all over the country who have left their families and the comfort of their homes to travel here to help us recover from this disaster.

If you see the Detroit Boys, give them a wave.

Anthony M. Sellitto Jr.

Spring Lake Heights

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Thanks to 'Detroit Boys' for restoring our power

My wife and I were driving home from the laundromat late Saturday afternoon. We were into our 13th day without power and we were frazzled. About a half mile from our house we saw workers from The SPE

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